Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-02-28
General News Items.

Inc Logan Iunu, lncluulnS Sl0-uOO falS'
ed in Chicago, now amounts to S64 900.
Many thousand head of cattle have per
tana.
John Stever, aged seventy, jumped
from the Niagara suspension bridge and
was killed.
PATHS appearance at Denver, Col, at
tracted an audience of 1000 persons. The
net receipts were over $1,000.
The Merchants National Bank of Dead
wood, Dakota, and its branches have
closed, with liabilities of 1925 900.
Professor f. E. Barnard of Vanderbilt
University, Nashville, Tenn, has discov-
ed a new comet the thirteenth to be cred
tied to him.
The Emperor of China has decreed that
henceforth there shall be no religious in
tolerance in his realm.
Caleb Cole of northumberland n. H.,
was run over by a sled loaded with tim
Der and instantly killed.
Mrs. Cleveland shook hands with 1000
people Saturday afternoon, and 2O00
couldn't get into the house.
railroad has fitted two trains with heat
ing apparatus supplied with steam from
the locomotive.
Robert Bonner has been offered $780,
600 for MAUD S. by Joseph Harker, who
bought her at four years of age for w.
H. Vanderbilt,
The Great Eastern, which changed
hands few years ago at 1926, 1000, was
sold last week for S13O,OO0 which is
probably not over ten per cent of its cost.
Queen Victoria proposes to signalize
her jubilee year by establishing an order
of decoration specially intended for the
recognition of literary, artistic and jour
nalistic merit
The night express on the White Noun
tain division of the Boston & Lowell rail
road struck and instantly killed Charles
H. Hill of Hill, n. H, who was driving
home from Co..~o.u.
The New York Legislature rejected the
bill exempting women from the death
penalty. Gov. Hill will probably not
commute the sentence of Mrs. Druse who
is to hang the 2Sth inst.
Captain Joe V. Meigs says that he will
begin the construction of the first mile of
his elevated railroad in Cambridge, Mass,
by the middle of March, providing the
city government grants him the location
he has asked. The company has already
spent $4,000 in experiments.
The prophets are at it again, predicting
that Cleveland win have rheumatism,
govt or general breakup soon, if he does
not make his work easier for himself. He
certainly is working very hard, and his
are so constant that they
force him to work the harder when he
has spare moment.
A fire started Feb. 20, in the basement
of Culver Hall, at Hanover, n. H., one
Of the buildings owned by Dartmouth
College and the New Hampshire College |
Of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, con- |
tanning the Hitchcock geological collec- |
tons and the natural history specimens, |
md 1t was only by sharp work on the |
part of the students that the building
vas saved.
Mrs. Olive Cleveland Clarke of Spring
ield, Mass, died recently, aged 10l years,
our months and twenty-one days. Mrs.
Ilarke's father lived to be ninety, and her
mother was one hundred four years and
tx months old when she died. She leaves
son Grew. Edward b. Clarke seventy
tx yeIrs of age, a brother ninety-one
ears of age, and sister aged ninety
even years.
A high wind had full sweep down the
tennessee river channel at Rochester, n. Y,
IN Feb. 18th, and snapped off two large
'oles which carry telegraph wires across
he bridge over the river. The poles
we're so placed In the iron trusses that
hey carried with them two spans of the
ridge. A man went down with the
wreck, and Annie Graham, aged 10 years,
vas carried away
ngton, in which he spells gentlemen
gentlemen" and supreme 'supreem,
las been reSurrected and published, and
he wits are having their fling at the hero
f the Ratchet. There was one thing
bout Georges spelling, however that
ther people would do we'll to copy. He
lways spelled patriotism with a capital
!, duty with big d, and country with
UGH large that it oyershadowed every
Their letter in the alphabet of life.
The profitable development of iron
lines in the South, is being taken advan-
age of by land spectators, who are is
uing glowing prospectuses, something
Ike the idylls of ''Florida lots" which
Fere so plenty year ago. In many cases
ley are swindles. The tracts of '.rich
'on lands offered for a song, too often
lrn out to be pine barrens, or lands which
ave been prospected and deserted long
efore. Prudent investors will regard
Il such schemes with extreme caution.
improvements in photography are
mong the most valuable as well as the
lost interesting of the advances in the
rts which have marked recent years.
rom its original application to portrait
re photography has extended its field
ntil there is hardly branch of science
which it is not in use, while the me-
lanic arts are but little less indebted ii
'r the increased efficiency and value of
leir products The astronomer, surgeon
nd physician find 1t valuable adjunct
study.
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